#ifyoucanrunclassroomsyoucanruntheUFT - Unity Caucus "professionals" attack on UFC Mocks Classroom Teachers who are never treated as professionals

Unity people fear UFC might beat longs odds and win, forcing them back to the classroom. Then they will find out they are NOT treated like professionals.

Unity calls UFT a union of professionals while allowing people to never be treated like professionals.

I read an astounding Unity hack attack on UFC that made me LOL. 

They actually brag about PD which teachers hate. Like I'm teaching a dozen years and I need more PD from people who often don't have a clue.

Professionals actually make decisions affecting their workplace. Teachers are totally ignored in the process. The UFT/Unity never make demands to give decision-making rights to teachers. UFT members are rarely treated like professionals partly due to union not fighting for them. Faux branding of something that can never be. Like failing to challenge abusive principals.

The same with the bullshit #Wedothework theme - mocking classroom teachers who really do the work while union bureaucrats leach off them.

And how about those attacks on UFC classroom teachers as not ready to run union? Like working at the UFT is not a dream gig for those wishing to get out of the real hard work of teaching. 

#ifyoucanrunclassroomsyoucanruntheUFT

Chicago classroom teachers came right out of the classroom to run the union much better than the Unity like machine that had been in power in the big upset 2010 election.

Do you see how desperate some Unity people are over the fear UFC might beat longs odds and win, forcing them back to the classroom.

UFT Contract Toxic PD Spillover: Parents Unhappy - at DOE and UFT

The calls have been coming in from parents and their reps who are beginning to realize how the new contract will change their lives as the school day gets readjusted in many schools. "WTF," is the basic message.

Can Mulgrew clean up the toxic spillover?

They tell me there is growing outrage as word spreads. And since parents are being told that teachers are supposed to vote on SBOs in the schools, some parents are placing the blame squarely on the teachers and the UFT - even more so than on the DOE and the principals, who often just plain lie to the parents, saying that teachers voted that way.

In one case, the UFT district rep told parents the entire district was using the default model of 8AM start time and 2:20 end time so the teachers can get their PD in by 4PM. WTF. Do parents give a shit about PD? Do teachers?


Let me say this as I have been and will continue to do: When the UFT goes along with the Farina (and most ed deformer) mantra that the key to improving education is Professional Development, they accept the "teacher blame" argument. Of course everyone can improve -- and the best PD is watching others teach -- but blanket PD is like expecting a gourmet meal at a UFT retiree function at The Hilton.

Then there are stories where the chapter leader didn't even offer teachers the option of an SBO and just did what the principal wanted. So the teachers feel screwed too -- but it is really their fault -- maybe a lesson for those who have their heads in the sand.

At the June 11, 2014 Delegate Assembly, Mulgrew spoke about the Vergara decision. How important it was to work with parents and how proud he was of the work the UFT was doing with parents. If the Unity/UFT leadership didn't have a tin ear they would have figured out a way to get some parent leaders, at the very least, involved in proposed negotiations. But they didn't even get regular teachers involved, so this is the spillover of closed door contract negotiations.

OK. Maybe it is a relatively small group of parents who feel they have been totally shut out of the process. I wonder where they'll stand when we see Vergara, coming soon, to New York?